The European Commission's decision to press ahead with tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles threatens to undermine decades of cooperation between China and the EU, and endangers climate-change goals,

A mild rally in the shares of automakers after the European Union voted to impose tariffs on electric vehicles from China does little to alleviate a bleak year for the sector’s investors.

European Union countries on Friday voted to impose duties on imports of electric vehicles from China, as talks continued between Brussels and Beijing to find an amicable solution to their trade dispute before an end-of-October deadline.